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Howdy folks, I picked up some kind of Ichthyophis recently that was labeled "Malaysian Caecilian". As I understand the two potential species would be Ichthyophis briangularis and Ichthyophis dulitensis, but the link below makes me think that it could potentially even be something else. Anyone know how I can find out what species I have? I'll try to get a picture up soon but I don't know if it will be of much help, as it is yet another of those yellow striped black caecilians. thanks
malaysian caecilian?

hi,
where did you bought your caecilian?
thanks,
phil

I picked it up at a local petshop (Northern California).

hi,
do you know do they still have some available?do they do shipping order?i really like to have couple these interesting amphibian.
thanks,
phil

Sorry but I highly doubt they ship animals. If you really want a caecilian you might want to check out another genus, as these guys seem to spend almost all of their time underground, and don't make for the best display animals.

The Ichthyophis genus is undergoing some major revisions. Much of the classification is based on Taylor's work which is not holding up too well recently. Here is a good link on caecilian taxonomy: http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/amphib_query?rel-genus=like&upper-genus=1&upper-species=1&upper-common_name=1&rel-species=like&rel-common_name=like&rel-family=equals&rel-order=equals&rel-isocc=like&max=200&orderbyaw=Family&where-genus=&where-species=&where-common_name=&where-family=any&where-order=Gymnophiona&where-isocc=any .